Shoe counter



Jan. 15, 1929. 1 ,699,474

F. L. MASON ET AL SHOE COUNTER Filed March 19, 1927 lNV ENTOR Fla/a NK L .MAsaN ANra q/o GA GLIARDJ ATTORNEY Patented Jan. 15, 1929.

UNITED STATE PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK L. MASON AND ANTONIO GAGLIARDI, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

SHOE COUNTER.

Application filed March 19, 1927. Serial No. 176,748.

In order that our invention may be readily understood we would explain that when a shoe counter is fitted to a last the counter when formed in the usual way fails to conform to a desirable extent to the form of the last, particularly at the back of the heel portion of the last, but on the contrary at the upper edge of the counter the same is spaced from the surface of the last so that the lasting is done imperfectly.

The general object of our invention is to provide a shoe counter so formed that the counter will hug the last snugly at all points, including the upper edge at the back of the heel portion of the last.

The nature of our invention and its distinguishing features and advantages will more clearly appear as the description proceeds.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, it being understood that the drawings are merely illustrative of one example of the invention.

Figure l is a perspective view of a shoe last and a shoe counter, the latter formed in accordance with our invention.

Figure 2 is a plan View of the shoe counter before being curved, as is done when applied to the last.

ally our improved counter.

10, it will be observed, has the upper edge 11 higher at the sides than at the center, the center 12 being depressed below the plane of the side portions of the upper edge 11 The upper edge gradually lowers from adjacent the ends of the counter to the central point 12 on gradually progressing straight lines. The lower edge 13 of the counter is given the usual form to be brought beneath the heel of the last. WVe have found that by depressing the upper edge toward the center, the counter will take a form closely hugging the last at the back of the heel, instead of the upper edge at the back of the heel being spaced from the last, as is the case with the usual counter.

o claim:

1. As an article of manufacture, a shoe counter blank having the upper edge thereof extending 011 straight lines'obliquely from near the side edges of the counter blank to a point approximately central of the upper edge, said straight lines extending downwardly toward said central point.

2. A shoe counter curved laterally inward at the extreme top of the heel portion of the counter to conform precisely with the curvature and formation of the heel portion of a last, the upper edge of the counter having lines rising from the central or rearmost point and running about the sides and forwardly.

FRANK L. MASON. ANTONIO GAGLIARDI. 

